The Oxford companion to jazz

African roots of jazz / Samuel A. Floyd Jr.

European roots of jazz / William H. Youngren

Ragtime then and now / Max Morath

The early origins of jazz / Jeff Taylor

New York roots: Black Broadway, James Reese Europe, early pianists / Thomas L. Riis

The blues in jazz / Bob Porter

Bessie Smith / Chris Albertson

King Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, and Sidney Bechet: Ménage à trois, New Orleans style / Bruce Boyd Raeburn

Louis Armstrong / Dan Morgenstern

Bix Beiderbecke / Digby Fairweather

Duke Ellington / Mark Tucker

Hot music in the 1920s

The "Jazz Age," appearances and realities / Richard M. Sudhalter

Pianists of the 1920s and 1930s / Henry Martin

Coleman Hawkins / Kenny Berger

Lester Young / Loren Schoenberg.

Streamlining jazz

Major soloists of the 1930s and 1940s / John McDonough

Jazz singing : between blues and bebop / Joel E. Siegel

Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughn, and Billie Holiday / Patricia Willard

Jazz and the American song / Gene Lees

Pre-swing era big bands and jazz composing and arranging / James T. Maher and Jeffrey Sultanof

Swing era big bands and jazz composing and arranging / Max Harrison

The advent of bebop / Scott DeVeaux

The New Orleans revival / Richard Hadlock

Charlie Parker / James Patrick

Cool jazz and West Coast jazz / Ted Gioia.

Jazz and classical music

To the third stream and beyond / Terru Teachout

Pianists of the 1940s and 1950s / Dick Katz

Hard bop /Gene Seymour

Miles Davis / Bob Belden

Big bands and jazz composing and arranging after World War II / Doug Ramsey

Thelonius Monk and Charles Mingus / Brian Priestley

John Coltrane / Lewis Porter

The avant-garde, 1949-1967 / Lawrence Kart

Pianists of the 1960s and 1970s / Bob Blumenthal

Jazz singing since the 1940s / Will Friedwald

Jazz since 1968 / Peter Keepnews

Fusion / Bill Milkowski

Jazz repertory / Jeffrey Sultanof

Latin jazz / Gene Santoro

Jazz in Europe

The real world music or the full circle / Mike Zwerin

Jazz and Brazilian music / Stephanie L. Stein Crease

Jazz in Africa: the ins and outs / Howard Mandel

Jazz in Japan / Kiyoshi Koyama

Jazz in Canada and Australia / Terry Martin

The clarinet in jazz / Michael Ullman

The saxophone in jazz / Don Heckman

The trumpet in jazz / Randy Sandke

The trombone in jazz / Gunther Schuller

The electric guitar and vibraphone in jazz : batteries not included / Neil Tesser

Miscellaneous instruments in jazz / Christopher Washburne

The bass in jazz / Bill Crow

Jazz drumming / Burt Korall

Jazz and dance / Robert Pl. Crease

Jazz and film and television / Chuck Berg

Jazz clubs / Vincent Pelote

Jazz and American literature / Gerald Early

Jazz criticism / Ron Welburn

Jazz education / Charles Beale

Recorded jazz / Dan Morgenstern

Jazz improvisation and concepts of virtuosity / David Demsey.